List of basic geography topics

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References

^ Geography. The American Heritage Dictionary/ of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved on October 9, 2006.
^ Pattison, W.D. (1990). "The Four Traditions of Geography". Journal of Geography 89 (5): pp. 202-6. ISSN 0022-1341. Reprint of a 1964 article.
^ web.clas.ufl.edu/users/morgans/lecture_2.prn.pdf.
^ National Geography Standards. National Council for Geographic Education. Retrieved on 2007-11-17. “The Geographically Informed Person knows and understands . . .”
^ Geography Standards. National Geographic Society. Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
^ Roger M. Downs. Geography for Life. National Geographic Society. Retrieved on 2007-11-17. “The National Geography Standards were produced under the sponsorship of the four major geography organizations: the American Geographical Society, the Association of American Geographers, the National Council for Geographic Education, and the National Geographic Society. Thus they are a statement not only for all the people interested in geography but also for all the major players in geography education.”

List of basic astronomy topics - while geography studies and maps the World, astronomy is the study of the rest of the universe, and maps the stars and galaxies.
Earth - there's a lot more to a planet than its geography. Some fields closely related to geography are:
- Geology - while geography studies the surface of the Earth and the location of things on it, geology is the study of the Earth itself, that is, its solid matter: the ground, what it is made of, and what is beneath it.
- Oceanography - while geography names and maps bodies of water, oceonography studies the large ones, the water they contain, and the life they contain.
Universe - the place where the World exists.